Leading Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2014
The senior partners and project managers are given a very large span of control (essentially running a three-ring circus). This means that the senior leaders have just enough time to offer meaningful coaching and mentoring, but not enough time to micromanage their rising talent. Keep the nets in place.
Great Leadership By Dan
APRIL 16, 2012
In many organizations and occupations, “management by walking around” and micromanagement have fell by the wayside, either by design or out of necessity. Organizations are flatter, spans of control have increased, and hundreds of thousands of employees now work from home. I’m in one of those positions.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 1, 2014
This meant that management span of control had more than doubled from an average of 5-6 salespeople per manager up to 12-15 per manager. The average span of control for U.S. The merchandising force operates with an unusually high span of control of 50 merchandisers per manager.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 28, 2013
To reduce this kind of complexity and stay away from micromanaging, take a periodic look at the organization''s structure and find ways to reduce levels and management and increase spans of control. Don''t let the weeds grow back. Finally, remember that complexity is like a weed in the garden that can always creep back in.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
At their best, companies realize that not everything is easily measurable, or should be measured, and that constant temperature taking and micromanagement are inefficient and demoralizing. They establish transparent boundary conditions and clear expectations. This task is closely related to the other two.
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